The Carolingians and the Written Word
The Carolingians and the Written Word

Author: Rosamond McKitterick

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989-06-29

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780521315654

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Functional analysis of the written word in eight and ninth century Carolingian European society demonstrates that literacy was not confined to a clerical elite, but dispersed in lay society and used administratively as well.

The Politics of Women's Suffrage
The Politics of Women's Suffrage

Author: Alexandra Hughes-Johnson

Publisher:

Published: 2021-11

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9781912702961

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A history of the early twentieth-century movement for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. In the United Kingdom, the question of women's suffrage represented the most substantial challenge to the constitution since 1832, seeking not only to expand but to redefine definitions of citizenship and power. At the same time, it was inseparable from other urgent contemporary political debates--the Irish question, the decline of the British Empire, the Great War, and the increasing demand for workers' rights. This collection positions women's suffrage as central to, rather than separate from, these broader political discussions, demonstrating how they intersected and were mutually constitutive. In particular, this collection pays close attention to the issues of class and Empire which shaped this era. It demonstrates how campaigns for women's rights were consciously and unconsciously played out, impacting attitudes to motherhood, spurring the radical "birth-strike" movement, and burgeoning communist sympathies in working-class communities around Britain and beyond.

Ireland and the Great War
Ireland and the Great War

Author: Niamh Gallagher

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-11-04

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1350246697

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On 4 August 1914 following the outbreak of European hostilities, large sections of Irish Protestants and Catholics rallied to support the British and Allied war efforts. Yet less than two years later, the Easter Rising of 1916 allegedly put a stop to the Catholic commitment in exchange for a re-emphasis on the national question. In Ireland and the Great War Niamh Gallagher draws upon a formidable array of original research to offer a radical new reading of Irish involvement in the world's first total war. Exploring the 'home front' and Irish diasporic communities in Canada, Australia, and Britain, Gallagher reveals that substantial support for the Allied war effort continued largely unabated not only until November 1918, but afterwards as well. Rich in social texture and with fascinating new case studies of Irish participation in the conflict, this book has the makings of a major rethinking of Ireland's twentieth century.

Individuals and Institutions in Medieval Scholasticism
Individuals and Institutions in Medieval Scholasticism

Author: Antonia Fitzpatrick

Publisher: University of London Press

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781912702275

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Individuals and Institutions in Medieval Scholasticism is one of the first pieces of close exploratory scholarship on the fundamental relationship between medieval scholastic thought, individual scholars, and their institutions. The text revolves around these essential questions: What was the relationship between particular intellectuals and their wider networks (including but not limited to "schools"), how did intellectuals shape their institutions, and how were their institutions shaped by them? This theoretically sophisticated collection uses a range of European methodological approaches to address a variety of genres such as commentaries, quodlibetal questions, polemics, epic poetry, and inquisition records, and a range of subject matter including history, practical ethics, medicine, theology, philosophy, the constitution of religious orders, the practice of confession, and the institution of cults. This book will be an important reference point for medieval historians, while also raising questions relevant to those working on individualization and institutionalization in other periods and disciplines.

BY LAWS OF THE SOCIETY
BY LAWS OF THE SOCIETY

Author: Baton Roug Louisiana Historical Society

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-24

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781360592565

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Melbourne's Twenty Decades
Melbourne's Twenty Decades

Author: Richard Broome

Publisher:

Published: 2019-11-19

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781875173082

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This fascinating book is unique, tracing Melbourne's growth decade by decade. A succinct introduction to each decade by an expert historian of Melbourne forms the prelude to some iconic images depicting the city as it was in that period. Melbourne emerges into a great city as the book unfolds to the reader..